Chapter 65: Goodbye, Mannheim

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"Selim. Tebel!! Nice direct free kick! Corner! ”

“goooooooooooal――! Hoffenheim take the lead again! Schalke 04's foul gave Hoffenheim too many free kicks, Salihovic wasted a lot, and this time the substitute Teber finally seized such an opportunity! ”

After the goal, Teber rushed to the bench, but he was pulled to the ground by Weiss halfway through the process, and then a large crowd pressed up. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Well done, Selim!"

"You shut them all up!"

The Hoffenheim players were thrilled and happy for Tebel.

In fact, even if they draw this game, they will win the winter championship, but Schalke 04 played so brutally that everyone has a fire in their hearts, and this fire must be vented in the right way, and this goal and a victory have become a way for everyone to vent their inner anger.

After Chu Zhongtian got up from his teammates, he waved his fist to the stands. He's also excited. Hoffenheim's first half of the season was amazing, until the last game the magic continued, the victory over Schalke 04, their points gap with Bayern Munich was pulled back to three points, three points is not much, but to be able to lead Bayern Munich three points in the league to win the winter championship, can still greatly boost the morale of the team.

They are taking their step by step towards the goal of winning the league title, and every step is solid.

The whole Schalke 04 team is facing a dilemma - if they don't foul, Hoffenheim's attacking players can make all sorts of combinations in front of them and threaten their goal. If you foul, you will give too many free kicks to the opponent, look at this free kick of Teber, maybe he can still score?

Hoffenheim, who were once again ahead and numerically superior, were in high spirits. In the 80th minute, Weiss volleyed from the right side of the penalty area, but the football was slightly higher and shocked the Schalke 04 players into a cold sweat.

A minute later, Hoffenheim made a comeback. Chu Zhongtian rushed forward with the ball in the middle, Engelar came up to defend him, he first stretched out his foot to break the ball, but the football was gently pushed away by Chu Zhongtian, and he stabbed it into the air. Seeing that Chu Zhongtian was about to break through like this, Engelar reached out without hesitation and grabbed Chu Zhongtian's jersey.

Chu Zhongtian rushed forward and found that his speed had slowed down, and Ngelar behind him was pulling his jersey.

If it were another player who had their jersey pulled, they would definitely stop and signal to the referee with open arms. But Chu Zhongtian didn't do this, he continued to struggle forward, pulling Engelar forward...... Until the referee's whistle sounded.

"Engrar tugged at Chu's jersey, he has to be careful, he has ...... on him Oh! Oh, my God! The narrator exclaimed. Referee Gagelman pulled out a yellow card again! The second one! Red! Ngal is sent off with a red card! Schalke 04 was sent off with two players! There is also an assistant coach...... It's a really intense game......"

The Schalke 04 players once again surrounded the referee excitedly, believing that a yellow card for just pulling the shirt was too severe.

Khalil. Altentop also came up to communicate with Chu Zhongtian and asked him if the foul was enough to deserve a yellow card.

Chu Zhongtian pulled his jersey and told him: "The jersey is torn like this, if he doesn't pull me, I will face the guard line directly......"

Teber also came up to comfort his former team-mate Altentop: "It was a foul, Khalil. You guys played really ...... today I don't think you're here to kick the ball and pull the jersey. ”

Altentop and Tebel used to play together in Kaiserslautern and both have Turkish roots, Altentop is Turkish, and Tebel is a German of Turkish origin, so the two are friends. Altentop could only shake his head helplessly in the face of his friend: "This is the manager's arrangement......" Tebel patted him on the shoulder. Schalke 04, who had been sent off by two and nine men, was already on the move, and Tebel was comforting Altentop.

※※※ Effenberg said proudly in the commentary: "I just said that if I play this game, the game should be over in 60 minutes!" Gagelman was so soft that he had only sent off two Schalke until now...... Ruten hasn't had a good run of results since he took charge of Schalke, and I think that has something to do with the fact that he's focused too much on his opponents' ankles. ”

With one person missing, Schalke 04 feels very difficult, let alone two people less. Hoffenheim's style of play can also easily make opponents feel understaffed and overstretched everywhere.

Hoffenheim was active in the game, especially Chu Zhongtian, running from the back to the front, from the left to the right. Watching them play always makes the audience think that Hoffenheim is always one more person than their opponents.

Rangnick once said in an interview with reporters: "With Chu, we will always have one more person than each other on the field!" ”

Ngral was sent off and Hoffenheim attacked more sharply.

Hoffenheim sent a free kick, and Salihovic did not shoot the ball directly towards the goal, but passed it to Chu Zhongtian, who was diagonally in front. After Chu Zhongtian received the ball, because Schalke 04 now only had two defensive midfielders left, he did not press him, but prevented him from passing the ball to others. He suddenly got up and shot from about twenty-five meters from the goal!

Luckily, Neuer was still focused and fell to the ground to save the ball.

Luten then replaced striker Altentop and replaced defender Bordon. He wants to defend solidly. With ten minutes to go, it looked like Rüten wasn't going to chase the win. He feared that the team would concede another goal under Hoffenheim's frenzied attack. A narrow one-goal defeat to this Bundesliga team this season...... No, maybe it's not a shame to be the blackest dark horse in Europe, you must know that Bayern Munich was forced to draw by Hoffenheim at their own home stadium, Dortmund was also slaughtered 1:4 away, and the giants who fell at their feet are Hamburg and Wolfsburg, Schalke 04 only lost one goal is good, Hamburg lost 0:4, and Wolfsburg in the case of attacking them, although they scored two goals against Hoffenheim, but their own goal was also beaten into a sieve.

Bordon didn't settle down after he came on, and Hoffenheim's attack was still like a tide, wave after wave, seemingly endless.

In the 86th minute, full-back Baker pressed up to assist, and he crossed from the right. Ibisevic received the ball on the right side of the penalty area and turned and volleyed, but Neuer fell to the ground again and blocked it, following Demba who shot in the rebound. Ba shot the football directly into the sky, and Schalke 04 escaped again.

Two people were sent off, the score fell behind, and now the team can only be beaten passively, with no hope of equalizing at all...... Such embarrassment made the coaches of Schalke 04 always angry about the referee's decision, and they kept chattering and disrespecting the referee on duty on the sidelines.

So in the 87th minute, the referee Gagelman was notified by the fourth official again, deliberately stopped the game, ran 60 meters, and came to the coach's seat of Schalke 04, this time he showed a red card to another assistant coach Biskens (michael_buskens) and kicked him off the field!

"Wow! Four red cards, two for Schalke 04's players and two for Schalke 04's coaches......"

"Schalke 04's mentality is completely out of balance and it's no surprise that they lost to Hoffenheim in this game. Their attention was completely lost in the second half, focusing on fouls and arguing with the referee. Biskens and Mild, as coaches, also did not set a good example for the players! Effenberg was unrelenting in his criticism of Schalke 04.

Hoffenheim's attack continued, and they didn't shrink back as the end of the game approached. They actually had a chance to score until stoppage time, but unfortunately they only substituted Demba in the 90th minute. Barr's Welington headed Baker's cross high.

When Hoffenheim's attack was over, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.

"It's over! Aha! It's over! Hoffenheim defeated 'Shakhtar' Schalke 04 2:1 in a hand-to-hand fight! They won the winter title and are three points ahead of Bayern Munich! It's not a tie, it's not a goal difference, it's a difference in points, this winter champion, Hoffenheim deserves it, even Bayern Munich has to bow in front of this team! ”

"In the half-seventeen league games, Hoffenheim won 12 games, drew two and lost three. Scored 48 goals, conceded 24 goals, won by 24 goals, and scored 38 points, ranking first in the Bundesliga. The team's top scorer Ibisevic is also the top scorer in the Bundesliga so far, scoring 20 goals in 17 league games! On top of that, they have the most shots on goal in the Bundesliga and they create the most scoring chances in the Bundesliga! Hoffenheim deserved to win the winter championship like this! "For the winners, everyone is always unstingy with praise words.

When the referee blew the full-time whistle, there was a huge cheer at the Karl Benz Stadium, and the Hoffenheim fans were on hand to witness the country team rise to the Winter Championship and witness history!

"This is definitely the most glorious moment in the history of Hoffenheim's 110-year-old team, but only so far! What other miracles can they perform? It's really exciting! This season's Bundesliga looks good because of Hoffenheim, thank you, lads from the village! ”

The Schalke 04 fans in the stands quickly left, but none of the Hoffenheim fans left. The Hoffenheim players are celebrating their winter title, which has no medals or plates, but 70 per cent of the teams that have won the winter title have won the season.

Winning the winter title means they are very close to the league title.

After celebrating the victory, the Hoffenheim players ran back to the dressing room, where they came out with a white T-shirt on top of their top that read "Welcome Rhein-Neckar!" "It's about promoting the new stadium.

The staff had prepared a banner for the players to lead around the pitch with the text "danke_mannheim! It's German, which translates to "Thank you Mannheim!" ”

Due to the lack of capacity and the fact that the new stadium was not built, the team borrowed the stadium from Mannheim in the new Bundesliga, where they set an unbeaten home record with eight wins and one draw. The course brought them good luck.

When they first started playing at the stadium, there were often signs in the stands that insulted them, not only from the visitors, but also from the local Mannheim fans who didn't like Hoffenheim. But as the season progressed, and Hoffenheim got better and better, the locals of Mannheim found the team less to be so hateful and liked the passionate attacking football.

More and more fans came to cheer for Hoffenheim, and after that, the 26,300-seat Karl Benz Stadium for each Hoffenheim home game was full.

A good home atmosphere is one of the big reasons why the team has been able to run a nine-game unbeaten run at home.

Now that the new stadium has been completed, the team is leaving Mannheim thanks to the passionate fans and the city.

Chu Zhongtian looked around the stadium stands, except for the stands where the away team fans were already empty, most of them stayed behind to accompany them to say goodbye to Mannheim.

We're going to play a new game after the winter break, can we still go unbeaten at home? Can we still win all the time? He didn't know, but he was sure of one thing - as long as Hoffenheim could keep playing this kind of attractive football and keep winning, the three-seat Rhein-Neckar Stadium would soon be thinking about expanding it...... He saw someone in the stands holding his portrait and writing in Chinese: "Come on, Chu!" He ran over and threw his shirt into the stands. It's like dropping food in the middle of a large school of fish, and it immediately attracts a lot of people to scramble.

Those who snatched the jersey were overjoyed, and those who didn't were very sorry. Seeing this, Chu Zhongtian simply connected the piece he was wearing, "Welcome to Rhine Neckar!" I took off my T-shirt and threw it on!

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Clear! Clear! Seeing him so generous, the fans in the stands shouted excitedly.

Later, Chu Zhongtian also took off the two pairs of shoes and threw them one on each side. After the shoes are thrown, they are socks, and after the socks are thrown, they are shin guards...... The German fans came up, they pointed to Chu Zhongtian's shorts and shouted: "And that!" And that!! ”

Now Chu Zhongtian has nothing on his body except shorts to cover his body. But he was infected by the atmosphere of the home stadium, and as soon as his brain was hot, he took off his shorts!

"Wow!" Ibisevic and other teammates were dumbfounded. At first, when they saw Chu Zhongtian throwing the jersey to the fans, they all thought it was a good idea. They were also ready to follow suit, but soon they saw Chu Zhongtian take off his shirt and sneakers like a striptease, take off his sneakers and socks, and finally even take off his shorts, and when there was only a pair of underwear left, they were all stunned - Chu was too crazy...... After throwing the shorts on it, Chu Zhongtian only wore a pair of underwear, but he didn't feel cold at all in the cold winter night, when he thought of the prospect of the team in the future, he only felt his blood boiling, how could it be cold? Standing in front of the stands and interacting with the fans through the barbed wire, he waved his fists while the fans chanted to his rhythm: "Hoffenheim! Hoffenheim! We are Hoffenheim!! We are Winter Champions! ”

This time, they were very considerate and didn't let Chu Zhongtian continue to take it off, but judging from the bulge of the tight underwear, Chu Zhongtian's place is not small...... Many female fans are already secretly drooling...... In this way, the stands were driven by Chu Zhongtian and became the focus of attention of the audience. Rangnick turned his head to look there, then laughed.

Chu Zhongtian said goodbye to the Karl Benz Stadium naked, while Hoffenheim said goodbye to Mannheim with a winter title and an unbeaten home run. The first half of the Bundesliga season is over, and Bayern Munich still haven't won the winter title, but they still have hope and are only three points behind. Regardless, Hoffenheim's performances this half season have earned everyone's respect, and they have conquered the discerning media and fans.

At the beginning of the season, it was not uncommon to hear curses against Hoffenheim, and the media were always sour when they commented on the promoted team.

But half a season passed, and everything changed. When people talk about Hoffenheim, they just marvel at their performances and love the football they play. People don't care how much money their owners have, or how many of the team are international and how many are homegrown. For the fans, it has nothing to do with the boss having money, even if there are eleven international players on the field? As long as they can win, as long as they play well, they will support it.

Just like Arsenal and Chelsea, both teams are known for their international players but still have plenty of supporters.

So these factors that have been criticized before are simply trivial and not worth worrying about. Football is actually very simple, it is a game of winning and losing, you can win and play beautifully, then you don't have to worry about no one liking. It's not necessarily a good thing to have to make football that complicated.

Hoffenheim's buses slowly pulled out of the Carl Benz parking lot.

Ibisevic waved his hand to the side of the court behind the side in the car: "Goodbye, Mannheim. ”

When Chu Zhongtian heard his words, he looked back. In the night, the lights on the top of the stands at the Karl Benz Stadium were completely extinguished, the fans were gradually dispersing, and some people were waving blue scarves and Hoffenheim flags and cheering when they saw the Hoffenheim bus.

The owner of the stadium is mired in the D League and is on the verge of bankruptcy, with no sign of promotion in sight. If nothing else, Hoffenheim won't be back playing in this stadium for some time unless they play in the German Cup.

But all Hoffenheim players will remember that half of their season at this stadium long afterward...... It's like a fairy tale, not so real, but it does happen.

The Karl-Benz Stadium is getting smaller and smaller, and it is gradually being left out of view. The Hoffenheim bus drove to their hotel, and the German word "Hoffenheim" meaning "home of hope" seemed to be carrying hope ahead.

(To be continued)